
Let’s break down these two cloud computing solutions to give you the full picture. AWS Fargate is the serverless version of EC2, while EC2 gives full control over instances and clusters, though at a higher cost. Docker containers are not necessary in EC2, though this flexibility comes at the cost of increased management.

EC2 instances are billed per second or hourly, while ECS offers a fully managed container orchestration service.īusinesses can utilize ECS to quickly deploy and manage containerized applications efficiently without worrying about infrastructure management costs.

While EC2 deploys isolated virtual machine instances, ECS uses container clusters to enable scaling and failover of applications. Conversely, ECS stands for Elastic Container Service and administers Docker container applications.

EC2, or Elastic Compute Cloud, is an elastic cloud resource provider with over 500 preconfigured virtual machine instances available on demand. © Yu Chun Christopher Wong / Īmazon Web Services (AWS) offers multiple cloud computing solutions, such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS.
